How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. –Psalm 119:9, NIV
Well, purity. One of the requisitos that show to God and the world that you are, in fact, a new creature from a new nation. Hand-on-hand with holiness, it is the reason why we grow deeper in this love –and why many choose not to go for Him.
Err, I wish it were more simple.
Purity is not necessarily a promise made manifest on a fantasy silver ring. (I don’t need one, thank you –not for now.) Nor is it to take it all away AND make-up, AND pantallas, AND jeans AND have a Bible under your soba…axilas to show the world you’ve changed. And of course, how can’t we talk about purity without going through the “little black book” of prohibitions: No movies, malls, baseball parks, basketball courts, beaches, TV shows, as such. And in NO WAY, NO WAY, purity is only about sex.
(Please, my people, let’s get our minds out of the gutter.)
Purity means taking away our sin, and drawing nearer to God, the Source of all purity and the source of all freedom. For what He gives, He takes, and He makes it new again. Sins confessed, and beings edified, hearts full of promise are exalted by God’s Spirit. He and only He can have the chance of renewing and purifying with hyssop and making someone anew.
…And since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.-Hebrews 10:22, NIV
José E.